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Activision dropped a lot of details on the return of Call of Duty: Warzone to Verdansk, the original map that made the game a massive success in 2020. The battle royale map for Season 03 will drop on April 3 at 9 a.m. Pacific time, a day after the the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6: Season 03 on April 2 at 9 a.m Pacific. This map was the popul… Read More

Groq partners with PlayAI to deliver Dialog, an emotionally intelligent text-to-speech model that runs 10x faster than real-time speech, including the Middle East's first Arabic voice AI model. Read More

No Man's Sky's newest update allows players to find and dig up fossils on its trillions of procedurally generated worlds. Read More

Observe.AI has officially launched VoiceAI agents, a solution designed to automate routine customer interactions in contact centers. The latest addition to the company’s AI-driven conversational intelligence platform, VoiceAI agents aim to improve customer experience while reducing operational costs. With this release, Observe.AI is positioning its… Read More

Rapt AI, a provider of AI-powered AI-workload automation for GPUs and AI accelerators, has teamed with AMD to enhance AI infrastructure. Read More

Microsoft announced Tuesday two significant additions to its Copilot Studio platform: deep reasoning capabilities that enable agents to tackle complex problems through careful, methodical thinking, and agent flows that combine AI flexibility with deterministic business process automation. Read More

Game Informer returns as Gunzilla Games has acquired and relaunched Game Informer, bringing back the staff and the website. Read More

METASCALE uses a three-stage approach to dynamically choose the right reasoning technique for each promblem. Read More

Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for Gemini Advanced users and is Google's most capable model with a 1 million token context window. Read More

Discord announced a series of updates for the desktop app that help make PC gaming easier and work better for players. Read More

Samsung Electronics America today announced the availability of its newest Odyssey gaming monitors, as well as the ViewFinity S8. The 2025 Odyssey lineup includes the Odyssey 3D, the Odyssey OLED G8 — which features an industry-first 4K, 240Hz screen — and the ultrawide Odyssey G9. These monitors, which push the boundaries of immersion, have been m… Read More

Saga Origins, a division of Saga, and Spirit Animation teamed up to bring the animated character Karl AI Agent to life. As one of the first animated characters to be transformed into an AI Agent, the strawberry superhero character Karl will now engage with fans in real time, delivering interactive storytelling and healthy lifestyle tips in an effor… Read More

Epic Games adds assets from The Walking Dead Universe to Fortnite Creative and UEFN, making them available for creators to build experiences. Read More

VividQ, a tech startup specializing in computational holography, has ported Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II to its hologram-compatible viewing format. Read More

Agentic AI is changing online meeting platforms and now thanks to Otter AI and other leading vendors it’s poised to change it even more. Read More

There's still a lot of juice left to be squeezed, cognitively and performance-wise, from classic Transformer-based, text-focused LLMs. Read More

Journalist Chris Dring has launched The Game Business, a new media brand for games, with backing from Geoff Keighley. Read More

DeepSeek's free 685B-parameter AI model runs at 20 tokens/second on Apple's Mac Studio, outperforming Claude Sonnet while using just 200 watts, challenging OpenAI's cloud-dependent business model. Read More

Microsoft and Bethesda's big Xbox hit, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, debuts on Sony's PlayStation 5 on April 17. Read More

It is misleading to call AI open source when no one can look at, experiment with and understand each element that went into creating it. Read More

It’s funny how people slip out of history. The story of Valve’s formation in its critical early years and how it made the original Half-Life is an inspiring one. I was one of the people who attempted to capture the story of the storytelling shooter game, but my relatively short story in 1998 for the Wall Street Journal left a key contac… Read More

Elda Entertainment and Overseer Games announced that Kaiserpunk, a grand city building and world conquest game, is marching toward a launch on March 21. Elda Entertainment is a brand-new publisher with a vision to deliver the best management games, and it’s teamed up with Zagreb, Croatia-based Overseer Games on the project. Blending productio… Read More

LexisNexis fine-tuned Mistral models to build its Protege AI assistant, relying on distilled and small models for its AI platform. Read More

Remedy Entertainment unveiled a new gameplay trailer for FBC: Firebreak, a three-player co-op FPS where the Federal Bureau of Control’s first-response unit must contain an escalating paranatural threat.  When the Oldest House, the Bureau’s shifting headquarters, falls under siege by a relentless paranatural force, only Firebreak – its most adaptabl… Read More

The ESA introduced the Accessible Games Initiative to provide players with information about accessibility features in video games. Read More

Three, all new proprietary voice models called gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-tts. Read More

LightSpeed Studios, a global game developer, said at GDC 2025 it is revealing the “Original IP Initiative,” a new strategic focus centered on developing original game titles. Game industry veterans from LightSpeed Studios took the stage at GDC 2025, to reveal plans for its decisive focus on the creation of original IP. Steve C. Martin will un… Read More

The real story behind Google acquiring Wiz is how the need for speed and better cloud security dominates every enterprise’s devops cycles. Read More

Anthropic launches real-time web search for Claude AI, challenging ChatGPT's dominance while securing $3.5 billion in funding at a $61.5 billion valuation. Read More

Gaming legend Henk Rogers, founder of The Tetris Company, will speak at the Gamescom Latam 2025 event in São Paulo. Read More

Instead of committing to bulk data contracts, businesses can consume only the insights they need, reducing operational overhead. Read More

Diga Labs, an innovator in the gaming and blockchain space, announced a strategic partnership with E4C, a metaverse game world by Ambrus Studio. Read More

Saga Origins debuted AI-powered gaming experiences as part of its Sidekick showcase at GDC 2025. Read More

King’s Candy Crush All Stars tournament is back for its fifth consecutive year with a $1 million prize pool. Read More

Discord announced plans to expand its successful Video Quests advertising format to mobile devices. Read More

Shawn Pierre, the chairperson of the Independent Games Festival, opened the Independent Games Festival Awards with a plea to support game developers. Read More

Monster Hunter Wilds is the big success story of February, according to Circana's charts, though overall industry sales are still in decline. Read More

Hugging Face challenges Big Tech in White House AI Action Plan submission, arguing open-source models match commercial performance while democratizing access and enhancing national security. Read More

Nvidia releases Cosmos-Transfer1, a groundbreaking AI model that generates photorealistic simulations for training robots and autonomous vehicles by bridging the gap between virtual and real-world environments. Read More

Netflix Games did a panel on the inspirations behind big-effort games at Netflix and the shows they're based on. Read More

Netflix made its case for creating and publishing games on its massive streaming platform for all the world to engage with. Read More

The fate of Project Slide Wow depends on user interest and engagement, as Adobe monitors social media conversations. Read More

Roblox said in a post to its creators that it understands that connecting their experiences with the right players is essential for their success. That's why its working on discovery. Read More

Unity said that Unity 6.1, lands in April as the first of three yearly updates for the Unity game engine. Read More

SEARCH-R1 trains LLMs to gradually think and conduct online search as they generate answers for reasoning problems. Read More

Mythica announced that Sprocket Games and Unleashed Games will open source key aspects of their projects through Mythica’s platform. Read More

Elbow Grease Games (EGG) has completed its first ever EGG Prototype Mixer with 10 game startups presenting to a crowd of game investors and publishers. Read More

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils 40x faster Blackwell platform, Vera Rubin roadmap through 2027, open-source Dynamo software, humanoid robotics AI, and GM partnership at GTC 2025, positioning the company to counter DeepSeek's efficiency challenge. Read More

Nvidia said it is building a Boston-based research center to provide cutting-edge technologies to advance quantum computing. Read More

At GTC, Nvidia is rolling out an open source reasoning model family to help advance agentic AI for enterprise deployments. Read More

GM, the largest U.S. automaker, has extended its collaboration with Nvidia to develop self-driving cars and enhance vehicle manufacturing through simulation and accelerated computing. At GTC 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced GM and Nvidia are collaborating on next-generation vehicles, factories and robots using AI, simulation and accelerated… Read More

Adobe's new Brand Concierge feature lets customers create websites that respond to visitors with personalization. Read More

Nvidia said 6G wireless networks are coming, with help from artificial intelligence processing. Read More

When it comes to getting music for games, Styngr is the only fully licensed major label partner that can get pre-cleared music into games. Read More

Microsoft said that ID@Xbox indie gaming label has paid out $5 billion to date to independent game developers. Read More

The #1ReasonToBe panel is returning to GDC in a climate in the U.S. that may not feel so welcoming for panelists this year. Read More